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It’s that time of year again, the winter TPT sale! My entire store will be 20% off, with an extra 5% off at checkout, just enter the code: ticktock. As usual, I have been working hard on developing new products and I have a new curriculum bundle ready for you to save big money on tomorrow and Wednesday.

Intro to DSLR Photography Curriculum

Since August, my talented and wonderful coworker, Meagan Brooker, and I have been working on an Introduction to DSLR Photography curriculum. This bundle is a hefty 100 dollars, but is worth every penny. It includes 18 photography projects, 13 critiques, 9 artist research assignments, a focus on the history of photography, semester long timeline, how to set up a class blog, and more.

With this bundle you will not have to plan a single day of the semester in your photography class. If you have never picked up a DSLR camera, you will also be able to teach yourself with the step by step instructions in the lesson that teaches aperture, f-stop, ISO, manual mode and more.

Plus, in addition to all of the lessons and activities, there are also eight printable posters to decorate your classroom with examples of important photography basics. Save $25.00 on this bundle during the sale, tomorrow (2/26/19) and Wednesday (2/27/19).

Zendoodle Worksheet Bundle

Another bundle that has come together between August and now is my zendoodle worksheet pack. This pack includes nine worksheets that cover tips, techniques, and how tos with zentangling. These worksheets are a perfect introduction to adding patterns to a project or end of an assignment early finisher handout.

Each worksheet includes examples of different types of zendoodles on the front (scallops, triangles, organic, adding color, combining multiple techniques) and a space for the students to practice on the back. At $14.40 you can get it for just $10.80 on TPT the next two days.

Printable Art Supply Labels

The last product I will share with you is my most recent, my art supply labels that were posted this afternoon. I have been working on these for the last few weeks and am so excited to finally share them with you.

My students always ask where supplies are located, even though every single cabinet and drawer in my classroom is labeled. One day the light bulb went on, maybe by adding a visual students would have an easier time tracking supplies down and finding their places when they are cleaning up. After all, artists are visual people.

After making a list of every single supply I would want a label for. I got to work. I drew art supplies, painted watercolor blobs, scanned them both into my computer, and combined them together. They are bright, modern, and easy to read. I think they are perfect for K through college, readers and non-readers, and any style art classroom.

These are listed for $25.00 and you get two different style labels, in two different sizes, of 46 different art supplies. There are a ton in this pack! Tomorrow and Wednesday you can get them for just. $18.75 on TPT.

Today I have been preparing for the big TPT sale and settling back into reality. My little family and I returned home today from a brief Florida visit for a wedding. Cooper and Kennedy spent the weekend with my in-laws in Tampa while Nick and I continued on to the Florida Keys, Islamorada. Is was sunny, hot, gorgeous, and turquoise. I am not ready to be home but I am excited for tomorrow!

If you want to see some other resources I have been working on since this time last year check out my August sale blog post hereand the cyber Monday sale blog post here.

Thanks for taking them time to check out my blog! Help me spread the word about my blog, my TPT art resources, and the big sale tomorrow by sharing with others! Thanks for stopping by.

I just want to drop a quick note to let everyone know about the Teachers Pay Teachers Cyber Monday sale, starting tomorrow, November 26th (2018) and running through Tuesday, November 27th (2018).

My entire store will be marked 20% off, plus you get an extra 5% off at checkout with the code cyber18. I only discount products in my store during TPT promotions, and this will be the last one for awhile. If you have been eyeing any of my products, especially my larger bundles, this is a great chance to get them for a steal!

The most recent products I have been working on are a series of zentangle based art handouts. These step by step printables show students how to create design based doodles. The most recent one I created (shown above) gives examples and tips on incorporating color into zendoodle designs.

I have also been working on a number of digital photography lessons with my amazing coworker Meagan Brooker. We are currently working on our first semester long Photo I bundle. Check out one of the first lessons of the future bundle, creating a photo journal, here. I will be sure to post more information about that product once it’s complete.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving week and are getting into the holiday spirit! Don’t forget to spoil yourself with teaching products to help make your life easier in your classroom. Check out my last sale post for more details on the many bundles I created over the summer.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog! Help spread the word by sharing with others. Thanks for stopping by!

This visual journal page is one of those quirky, fun pages that I love falling back on when inspiration just doesn’t seem to hit. I have an ongoing list of visual journal page ideas, and this one lived there for a long time before it became a reality.

Sometimes it seems like inspiration is overflowing. I have too many ideas and never enough time. But what happens to all of those ideas when dry spells hit? We all have our moments of inspiration road blocks, and this page represents one of those.

I had been steadily visually journaling about my life, all things big and small, when suddenly I had no ideas left. Nothing current seemed journal worthy and I didn’t have a vision for my bigger page ideas, but I was itching to create. That’s when I turned to my visual journal folder and ideas list. When nothing jumped out from the folder of odds and ends I had been collecting, I turned to my list.

My list contains big events that have happened that I know I want to include when I have time: births of nieces, anniversaries, big trips, plus little things that don’t necessarily need to fit in a timeline: I love walking barefoot outside, red and purple skittles are my favorite combination, and whispers make my ears itch.

When I had no ideas to start pages for the big events, the one that jumped off the page was the whisper one. Because although it is insignificant, it tells something about me, and reminds me of all the times my hubs has tried to catch me off guard with an ear itching whisper.

Out of nowhere his hot breath is quietly telling tales of “sad Sally selling seashells at the seashore,” because sad Sally is full of high pitch, whistly, and breathy Ss.

So although this is minor it does give my readers a piece of me and it gives me a memory of my husband that immediately makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and goosebumps appear on my arms.

SUPPLIES:

Visual journal

Drawing paper

Colored pencils

Pencil

Scissors

Book pages

Glue

HOW TO

To create this visual journal page I pushed myself outside of my comfort zone, including parts of the face in a drawing. Drawing is not my strength, and I knew it was something I needed to work on. I taught a drawing class and had many AP Art students who were drawing focus and needed help creating colored pencil portraits. I had yet to jump in, and decided this would be a good way to test out some techniques.

So I wasn’t too overwhelmed, I only focused on the nose and mouth of one figure and the ear of the other. I sketched them out with pencil on a separate sheet of paper before going in with colored pencil. I started dark and moved in a circular motion to get a smoother look. As I moved from dark to light I overlapped the colors and the circles to create a more even transition from light to dark. I worked on the faces and hands simultaneously, so the skin tones would match as closely as possible. Although looking back I see a lot of issues, it looks flat, the nose and hands aren’t in proportion, the teeth aren’t realistic, at the time this felt like a big accomplishment.

After completing the portraits, I cut them out, then moved on to the text. I was very happy with the way the text curled around the page in my bee sting page. So I decided to create a similar look with this. It helped add excitement, as if the words float through the air before reaching their intended destination. I wrote the words on a separate sheet of paper, then added lines and colored pencil. I cut them out and used an Xacto knife to cut out the hole in the center.

To emphasize the text, I glued it to a book page I had ripped from another book, then cut it out again leaving an edge of book pages showing around the block of text. Next, I glued the portraits to the pages of my visual journal, then added the text. I overlapped the portrait on the text block, making it look like the words were coming out of the figure on the lefts mouth. I used an Xacto knife to slice an opening in the ear of the figure to the right, then slide the text block through the opening to make it look like the words were going into the figure’s ear.

CHALLENGE:

Create a visual journal page about one of your pet peeves.

Interested in more visual journal stories, tips, and how tos? Check out my visual journal blog page here and my visual journal bundle on TPT here. Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog! Help spread the word and get involved with visual journaling by following, sharing, and commenting!

I have been terrible at blogging this summer, surprise, surprise, this reflects no past patterns whatsoever (insert eye roll here). Even though I plan to get back into regular blogging, I wanted to drop a quick note about the Teachers Pay Teachers back to school bonus sale!

I just found out this was happening at the end of last week, and I am so excited because I don’t remember participating in a bonus sale in past years. So many schools start back in September, so this a great way to give those teachers a sale day if they weren’t in school mode and back to school shopping at the beginning of August.

The bonus sale is one day only, August 21st (2018). My entire store will be 20% off with an additional 5% provided by TPT at checkout. I have still been posting regularly, although not as often as I was over the summer. I am back to school and my time is now spent 90% art teachering and 10% TPTing (with being a mom, wife, dog and chicken mom, and homeowner lumped somewhere in those two).

I have been working so hard getting my classroom set up and ready to go. I have done a good bit of clearing out, organizing, and rearranging this year. I plan to post about my classroom transformation soon!

I felt like my life revolved around laminating for a few days. But I also got my brand new “Save the…” poster series laminated and hung. I will be posting pictures to my instagram about these sometime next week. You can find these posters on my TPT store here.

If you missed my post recapping all the TPT products I made over the summer and the new bundles I am working towards, read about them in my back to school TPT post here.

Happy bonus sale day, make sure you mark your calendar! Thanks for reading this quick note, I look forward to sharing some of my projects more in depth soon. Thanks for stopping by!

I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. It’s BACK TO SCHOOL! Where did summer go? My summer went to pools, beaches, baby snuggles, and a ton of TPT ing.

My little family enjoyed a much needed out of town vacation in Hilton Head Island, SC. One of my favorite parts of being a teacher is the time I get with my sweet babies during summer. I ate up every minute of it while the babies were awake. But, every minute their little heads were on their pillows I was at my computer getting ready for today. The back to school sale!

I have seemingly endless ideas for TPT products, and my ever growing to do list certainly reflects this. I have hit it hard since the start of summer and have put together a bunch of new products and some major bundles. August 1st and 2nd my entire store will be 20% off, plus an extra 5% from TPT added at checkout. This is huge especially for my 5 curriculum, $300.00 bundle. See details below.

This is a goal I have been working toward for a couple of years. When I first started working on curriculums, with my Intro to Art curriculum, I realized there was a market out there for these types of products. That motivated me to post my personal curriculums for drawing, painting, advanced 2D, intro to sculpture and ceramics, and AP art. My goal has always been to build each curriculum individually then create a mega bundle, a complete high school visual art course load. Originally I wanted to also include 3D, but it will take more time to get there. Instead, I went ahead and put together my 2D high school mega curriculum bundle . It includes:

I have this listed for $300.00, a $35.00 discount. This is everything you need to teach every single day in 5 different art courses. With 25% off this bundle will be just $225.00, a lot of money for an art teacher, but a steal for the amount of content.

I already wrote about my AP Art curriculum here, so I won’t repeat myself. But I am so proud of this bundle. This would’ve been a huge help to me as a 1st year AP teacher, and I hope it can serve that for someone else. I have already gotten a number of questions about this curriculum vs. my advanced 2D curriculum. They are totally different and if you teach both I recommend getting both. That way you won’t have to redesign AP once your advanced kids move up. This will be just $75.00 with the 25% discount.

After completing my 5 curriculum bundle I decided to return to a project I started last year, a save the brushes poster. It was a quirky way to show students what happens if you don’t care for supplies and tips on how to prevent ruining brushes. As an art teacher I have many supplies at risk of student abuse. Over the school year I made it a point to photograph supply disasters as they happened in my room. I then turned those photos into save the glue, palettes, markers, paint, paint pumps, paint tubes, sinks, erasers, and pencils. I now have a poster bundle of “Save the…” posters. This is bundled for $17.60, and will be marked down to $13.20.

In my advanced 2D and AP art curriculums I made it a point to develop critiques to go along with every project. That lead me to the idea of creating a critique bundle. This includes 20 general critiques that could go with any type of project at any level. They are fun. get kids moving, thinking, and verbalizing their opinions. This lists for $37.60, but will be marked down to $28.20 on 8/1/18 and 8/2/18.

In addition to my own massive to do list, I have also decided to team up with my amazing coworker, Meagan Brooker, and my amazing mom, Anne Ward. Meagan teaches drawing, photography, and AP art at our school. She is also a professional photographer on the side and is responsible for all our family photos for the last six years, many of which are proudly printed on our annual Christmas cards. Photography is a hobby of mine, but professional, manual photography is totally out of my comfort zone. I know there is a need out there for good digital photography lessons, so that is where Meagan comes in. She hands over her awesome lessons and I TPT ify them: adding detailed lesson plans, PowerPoints, and clarifying instructions so anyone, professional photographer or not, can follow them.

Meagan and my first collaboration is an introduction to photography lesson. This focuses more on setting up a successful photograph from step 1, rather than relying on editing later. It emphasizes the elements of photography and rules of composition. This has two projects in one. It lists for $8.00 but will be marked down to $6.00 the 1st and 2nd of August.

My mom is a retired art teacher of over 30 years. She has a ridiculous wealth of knowledge in this subject area and still teaches private lessons, summer camp, and consults in her former school county. She specialized in printmaking in college, which is why I am so excited that the first bundle we are working towards is a K-5th printmaking bundle. It will not only include amazing lessons, but also how to set up your classroom to help printmaking run as smooth as possible. We will be working over the next year (or more) on a comprehensive K-5 yearlong curriculum. Our first printmaking lesson is a kindergarten fish monoprint. More is coming soon!

School starts for me 8/6/18, I am equal parts ready and not ready. But, I am making some changes in my classroom and can’t wait to share them here. I am hoping I can keep my summer stamina going and keep posting almost as frequently during the school year.

I have new motivation as my husband quit his job in May to pursue building is own company. This is something we have discussed for years, and TPT has made it a reality. I am so proud that my hard work is paying off and I can support my family in this way. TPT has provided a space for teachers to share their ideas with others, and I am so grateful I discovered it, gave it a try, and stuck it out.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog! Don’t forget to check out the TPT sale 8/1/18-8/2/18. If you are reading this after the fact, I promise my products are still worth every penny even at full price! Thanks for stopping by.